A think tank fronting the war on the war on climate change thought it was a great idea to start an ad campaign featuring Charles Manson, Osama Bin Laden and Fidel Castro. They pulled the first ads soon after. (MSNBC, Washington Post)

Not studying a vocation? Columbia professor Andrew Delbanco reassures in a recent NYT investigation: “We don’t want to have a population that has technical competence but is not able to think critically about the issues that face us as a society.” We’ll assume that’s why SEAS has U. Writing. (NYT)